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Best of Buffalo's bronzes: two owls dated approximately 1122 B.C.; a gilt Buddha whose first private owner, the Empress Dowager's Viceroy Tuan Fang, acquired it by building a brand new temple for the monks who had guarded it; a group of Renaissance pieces from the Dreyfus collection, just bought by Andrew Mellon for his new national museum (TIME, Jan. 11); two Benvenuto Cellinis; David with the Head of Goliath, only known bronze by Luca della Robbia beside his famed doors for the Florence Cathedral; the earliest of six known figures by Daumier of "Ratapoil," his famed...
Harvard Clubs are formed over night, according to the annual report of Fang S. Chien '10, vice-president of the Orient Division of the Associated Harvard Clubs. At least this was the case with the Harvard Club of Nanking, formed a year ago in February...
...Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required to faint, are lowered easily to the floor...
...Chinese statesman, in & out Foreign Minister of the Northern and Southern Governments, onetime (1929-31) Chinese Minister to the U. S.. son of the late great Statesman Wu Ting-fang; of a cerebral embolism; in Hongkong...
...possession of seven affidavits deposing testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal it to get on the jury and send those coons to the electric chair," more were in favor...